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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — US President Joe Biden insisted Thursday there was unity at an Americas summit, after the leaders of Argentina and Belize openly criticized him for excluding three leftist leaders. “Notwithstanding some of the disagreements relating to participation, on the substantive matters, what I heard was almost unity and uniformity,” Biden said. He said that he saw “almost total agreement” on issues such as managing migration and fighting climate change, and […]
(Eagle News)– The Department of Health reported over 200 more COVID-19 cases on Thursday. With the additional 252 cases, the country’s tally rose to 3692336. According to DOH data, Metro Manila logged the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days by date of onset of illness, with 1246. It was followed by Calabarzon with 373, Central Luzon with 201, Western Visayas with 154, and SOCCSKSARGEN with 96. Of the provinces and […]
18 to 30 years total jail time meted on Pichay, former LWUA deputy administrator Feleo for 3 counts of graft Pichay says he will exhaust all legal remedies in questioning ruling he describes as “baffling” (Eagle News) – The Sandiganbayan has convicted outgoing Surigao Del Sur Rep. Prospero Pichay Jr., for three counts of graft for approving the purchase of a local thrift bank in Laguna when he was still the head of the Local […]
(Eagle News)– The Department of Health reported 192 more COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, June 8, pushing the country’s tally to 3692084. According to DOH data, Metro Manila logged the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days by date of onset of illness, with 1191. It was followed by Calabarzon with 375, Central Luzon with 217, Western Visayas with 161, and Central Visayas with 99. Of the provinces and cities, Quezon City […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s prime minister joked he would huddle with top officials Thursday to discuss the soaring cost of lettuce and local KFCs’ decision to replace the verdant leaf with a cabbage mix on their Zinger Burgers. Dubbing the fast-food chain’s decision “crazy”, center-left leader Anthony Albanese quipped the situation had become a national “crisis”. Lettuce prices have soared by as much as 300 percent in Australian cities thanks to recent flooding and […]
by Gabriela Coutiño / Amaranta Marentes Agence France-Presse HUIXTLA, Mexico (AFP) — Thousands of mostly Venezuelan migrants began receiving temporary Mexican visas Wednesday as they prepared to continue their trek toward the United States. The migrants had set up a temporary camp on a basketball court in the southern Mexican town of Huixtla, some 40 kilometers from where they began their journey on Monday close to the Guatemala border. Immigration authorities in Huixtla began slowly […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — UN chief Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that the consequences for the world of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are worsening, with 1.6 billion people likely to be affect. “The war’s impact on food security, energy and finance is systemic, severe, and speeding up,” the Secretary-General said, presenting the UN’s second report into the repercussions of the conflict. He added that “for people around the world, the war is threatening to unleash […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Surigao del Norte on Thursday, June 9. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the quake hit at 4:56 a.m. The epicenter was 93 kilometers northeast of Burgos. The depth of focus was 1 kilometer. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
Mindanao affected by ITCZ (Eagle News)–The frontal system is affecting extreme Northern Luzon. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the Intertropical Convergence Zone is also affecting Mindanao. As a result, Batanes and Babuyan Islands will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides due to scattered moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, meanwhile, will have partly […]
by Orlando Junior Agence France-Presse MANAUS, Brazil (AFP) — Brazilian authorities on Wednesday arrested a man in connection with the disappearance of a British journalist and a local indigenous expert in the Amazon, police said, as calls mounted for officials to deliver answers on what happened to them. As the search approached its fifth day, official information was scarce on the investigation into the fate of Dom Phillips, 57, and Bruno Pereira, 41, who disappeared […]
by Frankie TAGGART An 11-year-old who smeared herself with her murdered friend’s blood to play dead during last month’s school shooting in the US state of Texas relived the horror of her ordeal before a panel of lawmakers on Wednesday. Miah Cerrillo, a fourth grader at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, recounted in terrifying detail the moments when 19 of her schoolmates and two teachers were killed by an 18-year-old gunman. She recalled how […]
by David COURBET A German-Armenian man drove into a crowd in a busy shopping district in Berlin on Wednesday, mowing down a group of teenagers and killing their teacher before crashing through a shop window. The incident happened at around 10:30 am (0830 GMT) just across from Breitscheidplatz, where an Islamic State group sympathiser deliberately ploughed a truck into a Christmas market in 2016, killing 12. At least a dozen people were injured on […]
